New font, who dis? Also, apologies for any mispronouciations or audio issues, and Apologies for the issues with the ChinaTrust Whales section, didn't catch that while I was in the home stretch
I like the new layout and editing style you're trying out. It makes your videos more crisp. Also, welcome back. I hope your mental is right and everything.
KBO and CPBL finally get their time to shine! Hooray! What an excellent video to come back on, Gaijin Baseball. Was cool to see the other two East Asian baseball leagues get some love alongside NPB. As someone who tries to catch all three plus MLB, it is great to finally see you get to cover the other two. Keep up the awesome vids, GB.
I have enjoyed watching your videos. Thank you. It's nice to see others like learning about baseball from around the world also. I'm glad I watched till the end. I thought Tuffy's 55 might have gotten left out... I agree, Tuffy is probably the best foreign player ever in Japan. He would have my vote, anyway.
Awesome video my friend, really love your content. It was great to learn about baseball in Korea and Taiwan as well as the Japanese game. As a Brit, I'm a tad ashamed to say I didn't know the Scottish historical reference you dropped!
I notice there are more spectacled seasonal home run kings in the NPB than the MLB. The only one that comes to mind is the Senators slugger in the 1960s who's name eludes me at the moment.
But he qualifies as a Domestic Player under the current rules (went to HS and/or University in Japan) Other Taiwanese players like Nien-ting Wu and Dai-kang Yang (Daikan Yoh) were also considered domestic for the same reason
Great video, thanks for posting. I could be wrong, but I believe the player you identified as Shingo Kuramoto in the part about Nagoya/Chuinichi is actually a photo of Japanese HOFer Michinori Tsubochi.
Looking at it again, you're right, but a seach for Tsubochi did not turn up that photograph, wheras a search for Kuramoto did. My fault for not double-checking
They finally gave up on Japan giving them NPB expansion franchises. It wasn't going to be like MLB expanding into Canada. So Korea finally started their own league. It was actually better for Korea in the long run. More Korea cities now have teams. If Korea was in NPBz there would probably be only 4 teams in Korea.
The main thing that's stopped me from doing a couple KBO videos is lack of footage. The KBO sections were the hardest to find clips for, and the players who I'd love to do videos on are from the 80s and 90s, and that's really damn hard to find
@@GaijinBaseball that is a blow to your format! Time to break out your art skills! I kid, but it is fun to hear their other team names and logos (and colours!). Thank you for even trying this! I definitely want to be prepared go to baseball games if and when I make it to these countries!
This is really just trivial, while probably everyone thinks Sadaharu Oh was Japanese, he technically was Taiwanese. While he is as Japanese as anyone can be being born in and raised in Japan, but for the patriotism of his father he never changed his nationality despite the ease of which it would be for him to do so.
My reason is down to how foreign player designations work. Because Oh was born in Japan and went to a Japanese high school, he counts as Japanese under the current foreign player rules. Had Isao Harimoto or Tomoaki Kanemoto held the home runs records for their teams at any point, they would also be looped in to the Japanese section for the same reason, despite being ethnic Koreans. When it came to Japanese-Korean Jae-bak Song (Hiroshi Yoshimoto), who briefly tied the OB Bears' home run record, he wasn't considered a foreign player by the rules of the KBO, who officially didn't allow them at the time.